‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy

Well.......there you have it, The Russkies know how to play people and Trump was an easy target. All you have to do it pretend to be impressed by him aka shower him with praises.

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...KuAE-KG8wKTB6aWR2q2JOZ9VSMO_OIm6Fip3MIasPMHrY
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.

Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.



Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

 

No surprise there. That just confirms what a lot of us suspected all along. One could replace the word "target" with other words that would describe the situation more ..graphically

 

Well, we have plenty of China assets in the government, but they don't usually get outed, unless they're really stupid about it (like Eric Swalwell).

The Russians are a less destructive influence than the CCP, however.

 

Well, if you say so, then it must be true.

 

And if the Guardian says so it must be true. What exactly did Trump help Russia with?

 

Like weakening NATO. Heck, his apologists are still gushing about how US should leave NATO. Read the article.

 

LOL, Ok...*roll eyes

 

Oh brother, STILL tryin' to ride that Russian bear....NEWS ALERT....TRUMP AIN'T PRESIDENT NO MO!!!

 

The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy

Now we are listening to Russian ex spies instead of English ones? It has to make you laugh.

 

Trump had a problem with other countries not paying their agreed share. As usual the US pays more to help support the freeloaders just so we can count on them to back our play.

 

Mods, this Coo Coo thread needs to be moved to the conspiracy section. We wouldn't want this kind of hairbrained insanity corrupting the other threads.

 

Then be sure and buy his BOOK.

 

No, but looks like he is, and always was a Russian asset.

 

Actually we don't pay anything for other countries. Believe it or not, but Germany actually paid us to house US troops in Germany. You do not understand how NATO works, or why US spends so much on military. No one is telling us to pour 800 billion per year on defense. We do it because we want to.

 

No, we do it because we have to. If true about paying the US for housing it was probably the money they owed us for the Marshal Plan.

 

Have to? No, we don't have to spend that much, we choose to spend it.

US Military budget in 2000 = $300B
US Military budget in 2020 = $721B

No, Germany didn't help house US troops in Germany because of Marshal Plan.

 

You're like shooting fish in a barrel.
https://www.stripes.com/news/germans-irked-by-demands-for-financial-support-for-us-bases-1.452175
Already the Trump administration is pressuring Germany, which fails to meet NATO’s quota of 2 percent of gross domestic product, to increase its military spending.

Indeed, Germany picks up a much smaller portion of the cost sharing tab for U.S. bases than Japan or South Korea, two nations that absorb roughly half the costs of hosting a large presence of American troops.

Not only does Germany pay less — about $1 billion, or 18 percent of the overall cost — most of the funds come in the form of in-kind services rather than hard cash, according to a 2013 analysis by the Rand Corp. With President Trump focused on whether the U.S. gets a “good deal” out of its military alliances, Germany’s smaller cost-sharing burden complicates a relationship already showing signs of strain.

 

WOW! Leave it to the Russians. Their assets are everywhere.

Great disguise there Boris.


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Not everywhere, but for the past 4 years they had one in the White House.

 

So that makes Russian assets in our government not worth comment? If you were told you had carbon monoxide building up in your home, I suppose you would just shrug it off & say, "well, it's a better way of dyin' than in a house fire."

 

Trump never suggested leaving NATO. In fact he strengthened it by demanding other members make the military spending to which they agreed. You got this 180 degrees backward. Personally I think we should leave NATO but I am not Trump.

 

Obama got them to agree to meet the spending goals by 2024, and Trump did discuss pulling US from NATO, and got NATO wondering if US can be counted on if need be.

 

Lock him up.

 

"corrupting the other threads".....

 

Conspiracy theorists do have a way of doing that!